>> cenk: back on "the young turks" where tomorrow we're going to look a this interesting case with senator bob menendez the escort who said she was hired by menendez and she lied about all the testimony. tomorrow also i'll be on "the war room." stay tune for "viewpoint."

you. >> john: so with the 2014 presidential race be between jeb bush and hillary clinton? i don't know i'm just glad our forefathers had that whole war to get away from inherited power. and he's back from north korea. dennis rodman is done sucking up to a buffoonish leader and he's going on donald trump. and mitt and ann romney are back to remind you that the media covered whether president obama was even born here was in the tank for president obama. and today is the 100th anniversary of the u.s. department of labor. happyhappy birthday. and it's the birthday of chaz bono, everybody loves chaz bono,

and rick perry. this is "viewpoint." [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> john: good evening, i'm john fugelsang, and this is "viewpoint." while most of the political world indulged in its latest spectator sport, blaming each other over the the sequester president obama named three nominees to the cap innocent post. energy, office of management and budget. leaving the blame game to the white house press secretary jay carney. >> it is unfortunate, again it's a wholly unnecessary decision made by republicans to allow this to happen. >> john: of course if you listened to speaker of the house john boehner you would know that the $85 billion that the sequester's removed from the economy this year is all the democrats' fault especially, mr. obamas. >> we've known about this for 16 months. and yet even today there's no

plan from senate democrats or the white house to replace the sequester. >> that's just not true. they made it very clear as the president just did that he has a plan that he has put forward that involves entitlement cuts, spending cuts that you made a choice as have republicans to leave tax loopholes in place and you'd rather have those than live with all these arbitrary cuts. >> that's just nonsense. if he had a plan why wouldn't senate democrats go ahead and pass it. >> john: that plan exists on the white house website right now. we'll have more on david gregory's experimenting with follow-up questions on tonight's f-bomb. you don't want to miss it. as for why the senate democrats wouldn't go ahead and pass the president's plan, that might have as much of the republican's use of the filibuster to force a 60-vote super majority on any issue beyond naming rights for post offices. meanwhile gene sperling director of national

economic council or as bob woodward calls hick, the scary sith lord, says the president spent the weekend reaching out to lawmakers on both sides of the ail on the sequester. >> he's making those calls to see where there might be a coalition of the big, a caucus for common sense. it makes no sense to sit back and watch communities that depend on military spending, it makes no sense to see us lose 750,000 jobs when we could come together in bipartisan bipartisan comprise. >> john: but it makes sense for republicans primaried to the right to cost hundreds of thousands of jobs. mitt romney told fox news that he doesn't think it's working. >> that causes the republicans to trench and fight back.

that's a natural human emotion. >> john: and who would understand natural human emotions better than mitt romney. joining me now is robert reich author of "beyond outrage: what has gone wrong with our economy and how to fix it." good evening. >> hello. >> john: you published a blog post of what the president do now. now that the sequester has taken affect what should obama do. >> instead of continuing the blame game, i think the president has an argument in that blame game but have the senate democrats move useing a procedure called reconciliation, needing 51 votes using that to repeal the sequester and leave it up to the republicans oh to say we support the sequester. we want the sequester because

the democrats don't want it. and the democrats have moved and the majority in the senate has actually moved to get rid of the sequester. then i think what the president ought to do is make it very clear to the american people that 2014 is a referendum on whether they want a continued essentially a ransom demanded by house republicans tea party republicans over a whole set of issues having to do with from medicare to social security to the future of this country to investments, education job training infrastructure, everything else we need in terms of building the future economy. >> john: of course, reconciliation was used to pass the affordable care act but i have a question about it regarding sequester appeal. wouldn't that still have to be approved by the republican house? wouldn't this be just a theatrical gesture? >> it's all theater right now but it's not a theatrical

gesture because it puts the responsibility squarely on the republicans. instead of the republicans saying they're to blame for the sequester. once the democrats show that they have enough votes in the senate to repeal the sequester then it moves to the house. what are the republicans going to do? they can't continue to say we're not responsible for this continued sequester. then they are responsible for their sequester. >> john: it's a brilliant idea, but i don't see it happening. what is holding this white house back from taking positive action on this? it wins on p.r. and winning american workers. >> i think the white house is worried that the republicans would bang them over the head as being fiscalcally irresponsible. i think much of the country is not there at all. much of the country is very receptive to what was the major argument during the campaign that the president made over and over again that is the jobs and wages and widening equality.

those are the real challenges ahead. not the budget deficit. it's down 5% of gdp right now. that's what it was when bill clinton came to office. we have a problem with the budget deficit that's true, but that's mainly because of rising healthcare costs and aging baby boomers. the way to deal with that is not to shave the government back. the way you deal with that is get control over healthcare costs. have a single pair, a public option under the new affordable care act. but you don't do that by holding the country up, by slowing economic growth, which is exactly what the sequestration is doing. >> john: well, you said you wanted the president to reframe the whole debate around the country's future rather than the austerity that g.o.p. favors. now republicans are campaigning against him on the issue rather than trying to meet him halfway. you and i know that is a load of nonsense. what more can the president do?

>> i think the president ought to take austerity economics on directly. look at what has happen happened in europe. you have high unemployment. what does england do, spain they began cutting when consumers were already pulling back. when you do that, you shrink the economy. when you shrink the economy you have fewer revenues, then the ratio of the debt to the economy gets worse and worse. that is the downward spiral that a lot of europe is in. it's not greece. greece is a separate case. a lot of europe is in that downward spiral because of austerity economics. the president ought to say the republicans stand for two principles that don't work, austerity economics, and trickle down economics, and we know why innocent doe work. >> john: it's amazing considering our g.o.p. friends made pro growth their mantra out

of the frank luntz machine. they're being anti-growth. a number of commentators including republicans said the g.o.p. can't give grounds to the president on taxes because their identity as the anti-tax party is all that is oh holding them together any more. do you think that's right sir? do we see two more years of this? >> that's exactly right. that's the only thing they have. otherwise, you've got the religious right in battle with republicans who have the tea partiesers who want to go in one direction shrinking government, and then deficit hawks. you've got republicans all over the place. they don't know what to do. the only thing that is holding they will together right now is hating taxes. the problem for them when the public begins to understand that what is really happening is that republicans are saying no taxes on the rich. no closing of any loopholes at all. mitt romney's--his special

privileges with regard to private equity and all of the other privileges that the rich have, we want to protect and we want to protect even at the expense of schools and roads and bridges and women and infants and children programs and everything else the public needs, inspectors, we are the republican party will have to admit they are not the party--the anti-tax problem party. they are the party of the wealthy and the privileged in this country. and i think that they--you know, that it's indisputable. they will not be able to hide behind the curtain. >> john: robert reich professor, happy 100th birthday

to the labor department. >> thank you john. >> john: services are starting to get cut not to mention the u.s. military. but egypt, a funds just happen to be on the way. secretary of state john kerry told mohamed morsi reported that they would be accepting help in return he receive assurances for political reforms. he continued his mideast tour on iran. he told gulf ministers and saudi crown prince the way to reach a peaceful agreement would not be open indefinitely. he told the public affairs committee that president obama was not kidding when he threatened military action if that window closed. >> big nations and presidents of

the united states cannot and do not bluff, and president barack obama is not bluffing. he is not bluffing. >> john: not speaking at apac today, chuck hagel. i'm joining by joel ruben director of policy and policy affairs. joel welcome back to the show. >> great to be here. >> john: why is the u.s. giving the morsi government a quarter of a billion dollars this week. what are the country's extreme needs, and why should american taxpayers pay to fix them during sequester mania. >> this is meant to show strength and american strength and connection to the county's in the arab world who are undergoing tremendous change and are in the midst of violence and political turmoil.

egypt is the cornerstone country in the region for american interest, and kerry is making it clear that the u.s. stands with egypt and changes taking place but this money was appropriated and authorized a year ago is now being released. it was held some time by congress we lated to questions related to egypt's future and politics there. but it is a worthwhile investment. it's the kind of money that if we're going to use money in foreign aid this is where we should be putting it, to make sure we have a relationship with this new government that does meet the needs of the country. >> john: and anybody who cares about egypt's long term strength and stability should care very deeply about the strength of our relationship with egypt. >> we really have a relationship with the cornerstone country for israel ensuring that israel's southern board is secure. they signed a peace treaty more

than three decades ago. part of that was to make sure that the u.s. and egypt were tight, and the security relationship we have with egypt does secure israel that they will not have another middle east war. they've had several with egypt in the past but not since the treaty, and it's key. >> john: it's great to see capitalism helping to bring peace to the region, but is a quid pro quo from morsi's government on aid and reforms of any real value? egyptians are supposed to vote next month and some opposition groups say they're going to boycott the polls because of interference from morsi and the muslim he brotherhood. >> the economic and political conditions of the country that the egyptian people have been suffering from, we need to make sure when we communicate, and this was communicated, whenever we communicate with egypt as a government, we're including all the people of egypt.

there is a deep need for a change in the way they governor their country and there are concerns being expressed by the egyptian protesters out two years in cairo as well as the activist groups who. we need to make sure that they're treating all of their people in the right way. >> john: what is secretary john kerry trying to accomplish on this his first mideast tour. is this about advancing the president's trip this month or the bigger regional issues, what is going on in syria iran and what is going on in israel. israel. >> john kerry is a global presence, and he has been for years. he's using his role as secretary of state to show that there is a global presence in control of the state department.

he's certainly laying the groundwork for the president who will be in israel later in month, and he'll meet with the palestinians and jordannens. but kerry is looking at broader issues of importance to the united states will have our attention. that means the gulf states, egypt, syria that we're engaged, we're hands on, and that's what he's signaling with his visit. >> john: it sounds good. we're a mitt out, joel but israel is the president's first stop on his schedule mideast tour next month israel still does not have a government after the election who will he be talking to regarding talks on israel and palestine? >> the israelis have a two-week period to form a government. netanyahu is having a hard time assembling it. odds are if he fails he'll be

facing angry people. he should be meeting with palestinian leaders, with mahmoud abbas to make sure that efforts are stronger and efforts are made to resolve this conflict peacefully. >> john: do you think he will meet with abbas seriously? >> yes i think he will meet with abbas the the king of jordan, and the israeli leadership. what he does with that and where they want to take it is still in determination, clearly. but the president has a relationship with abbas and a relationship with the palestinians generally that is important to american security interest in the region. >> john: you make me feel better about this. director of policy and development affairs and former state official and senate aide joel rubin always great to have you on the show. >> thank you so much. >> john: of course. imagine a world without nuclear weapons. you can say i'm a dreamer but i'm not the only one.

valerie plame wilson joins me next. anything. what the hell were they thinking?

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here is a message to all you climate-change skeptics and evolution deniers yay science. it was nearly four years ago that president obama laid out his vision for a world free from nuclear weapons before audience in prague. >> today i state clearly with the conviction america's commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons. it will take patience and persistence. but now we too must ignore the voices who tell us that the world cannot change. we have to insist, yes we can. >> john: to be sure president obama's pledge was historic. it signaled the virtual reversal in policy from his predecessor whose doctrine advocated for expansion of the america's nuclear arsenal, and banished the word's disarmament from its vocabulary. how many progress has the president made towards its

course towards zero nuclear. now joining me is valerie plame which will soon with global zero. >> thank you for having me. >> john: what brought you to this topic. i don't know how many c.i.a. operatives who do this. >> i made sure that the good guys whether they are terrorists or rogue nations do not get nuclear capability. they called me up and asked me to participant in ""countdown" to zero." it opened up this door to which now i can be deeply involved in a much more overt fashion than i was previously. and we are--what we're doing this week is launching a global campaign one calling on

president obama to continue further reductions in the u.s. russia nuclear arsenals, but to take an important historic next step, which is calling all the nucleares powers together to the table and start international nuclear negotiations. >> and they did "pulp fiction" and it's inspiring to see figures of hollywood and political figures like yours working together for peace. what concrete actions if any have you seen by this administration since the prague speech? >> well, the prague speech was a great kickoff, and we're building this campaign towards that. it was really telling that although obama inherited an economic meltdown, as we know, his first speech foreign policy was about a world without nuclear weapons. we know he cares about it personally i've seen his thesis was on the twisted logic of

nuclear deterrents. clearly now he has won a second term he's thinking about his legacy, and he knows this is huge. no matter what his accomplishments might be in healthcare we form or gun control or economics economic policy if he can really move the ball a little bit further down the field on this one, it's huge. >> john: well, i'm often driven to remind my liberal friends about how much ronald reagan did on this issue during the last year of his presidency. but considering the obstructions we see in congress will president obama have any kind of chance to finish this by the end of the second term? >> this is what is so great about global zero. it's nonpartisan. it's truly international, and there is a huge grassroots effort. i was in brussels a few months ago talking to top-notch students from all over the european countries. they come in, we give them training, and they go out to their respective universityies to

start global zero chapters. there was a letter to president obama by general defense ministers, there was a petition recently on global zero.org , and declaration from the european parliament all can calling for him to use his power, bring the parties to the table. there are nine nuclear-powered nations in the world and begin negotiations. >> john: are you getting support from conservative citizens across the world. it seems you cannot get more conservative than conserving species and the planet. >> global zero cuts across. we have everyone on board from schultz and kissinger gorbechev gorbechev. blair, musharif, and this is not a partisan issue. we cannot continue on the path that we're on. >> john: we only have a minute left but when it comes to

countries like iran, isn't the best way to convince them not to enrich uranium to make weapons is really us showing that we're getting rid of our own. we're fighting over who is allowed to have these weapons. >> you get nowhere with that very quickly. i don't think job zero is global zero is oh naive to believe that iran will sign on, what a great idea. but you set a context international pressure that will continue to build with political will. >> john: we only have a second left. i have to ask about bradley manning. what are your thoughts? >> i think what he did was wrong. at the same time, a couple of questions you have to ask what is a 22-year-old private doing with access to all that information. it seems to me the onous should be on the government to properly classify, of course we overclassify everything.

and his treatments has been absolutely appalling. he has been detained without a speedy trial. and it's the whole thing is just so sad when you look at what happened on wall street and-- >> john: exactly. he said his goal was to embarrass the government. he did it, but why has it been so difficult for folks to walk and chew gum on this and say what he did wrong and his punishment has been wrong. >> absolutely. >> john: thank you for your work. i've been a fan for a long time. thank you for the work you're doing. >> thank you. >> john: global zero what is the website address. >> www.globezero.org , sign the petition. >> john: how food is killing us. not all food. just the stuff you like. that's coming up next. cleans your jeans and won't torture your tanks. woolite washed clothes look like new, longer.

>> john: so this week on wtf america we look at pennsylvania known as a swing state which means if you're driving through

it and you swing your car in the wrong direction you might end up in jersey. it's neither a red state for a blue because it's a kaleidoscope dream coat of you wtf. take darrell metcalf who introduced a bill that would enforce anti-gun measures a felony in pennsylvania. mr. metcalf said he wants to make gun laws to make it unapproachable from the government tyranny. the wtf-ness of metcalf gets more wtfy. he said we'll never allow the left to benefit from the wicked acts of murders to enhance their gun grabbing agenda. but he seems perfectly allowing mass murderers to amass their

gun agendas and when they have a gun it often results in mass murders. wtf, pennsylvania. our nation was founded in you're fine state. you're a great state. you produced rocky and fired rick santorum. philadelphia was where our constitution was form. now mr. metcalf wants to pass an unconstitutional law.

>> john: welcome back to "viewpoint." we asked our viewers to comment via twitter or facebook on the sequester, and john scott g posted this on my facebook page. the democrats are to blame for thinking that sanity and common sense would prevail in congress. i agree john scott that was pretty insane thing for democrats to think. that's like expecting the joker to be let out of arkham asylum for good behavior, and yes in answer to your question i'm a

geek with no life. if you have a comment for the show, tweet us at www.ctvorjohnfugelsang,oruse hash www.ctvorjohnfugelsang,orusehash tagvow. ifyou'rewww.ctvorjohnfugelsang,orusehas htag"viewpoint." if you're sitting there with on your couch eating "viewpoint" with a nice big bowl of potato chips, you might want to put them down. the book called "salt sugar got: how the food giants hooked us." it will hold them accountable for the social costs that keep them climbing even enough for them to say enough already. michael, thank you to the show. >> thank you for having me. >> it's a pleasure to have you. >> john: you say processed food, the processed food industry has made a conscious effort to get people hooked on foods that are

inexpensive and convenient. can you explain briefly what that entails and more importantly how they went about it? >> it really comes down to the title of the book "salt, sugar, fat." the holy grail if you will, you'll find these in products in huge amounts all over the jerry store. the products will fly off the shelves. we'll buy more, eat more, and they being companies will make more money. >> john: it's the perfect amount that i found interesting. you write about the bliss point. can you explain what that is? is that the perfect amount and how does that influence the stuff that we put in our bodies. >> a food science and howard moskawitz walked me through the soda flavor for dr. pepper. it involved a regression analysis but he took dozens of

formulations each just slightly different than the other to find that perfect spot that would guarantee sales. that's called the bliss point. you can do the experiment yourself. if you like sugar and coffee, add a little bit of sugar, more and more until you add the perfect spot. keep adding and then we'll like it less. it's not like we like infinite amount of sugar, but it's calculated to hit that point in all their products. >> john: it sounds like a drug high. >> there have been comparisons to narcotics. there is no word the industry hates more than addiction. they love cravible, alluring, and i was skeptical, too until i spent time at the national institute of drug abuse, they have done neurological work on both narcotic, and highly pat lettable foods. she's convinced that for some people some foods are very bit

addicting as some narcotics. >> john: how bad are these processed foods that we're putting in our body. how bad are they for us, and is it fair to call them food. >> i was stunned. this book was like a detective story. because when i ran across a trove of confidential records of how the industry works what is stunning they had known this, it was always known that too much salt, sugar, fat can be bad for you. but now we know the food companies have known this for years. and despite that have pushed ahead and added copious amounts of salt, sugar fat to continue what they do, which is to make their products as alluring as possible. >> john: to make us happy. >> to make us happy. >> john: yet, i don't think the ceos of the burger king are eating their product. >> a high level don't eat their

own products, especially when they run into health trouble. i met a gentleman who blew out his knee, and he couldn't run any more. he cut all calories and liquids. then he stopped buying potato chips. he's one who has trouble resisting eating the whole bag when he opens it up. >> john: america was the first empire to have fat poor people. it never happened in history before. in 1999 the 11 major food companies met and were presented with options of handleing the then blossoming child obesity problem and they rejected it. if they were to meet today would they decide anything different? are they still so responsible for the profits and shareholders they wouldn't do anything. >> i would like to think that they would decide differently now. we've all become much more concerned about what what we're putting in our bodies. >> john: not all of us. >> well, a lot of us and hats

off to the first lady. we never intended to make america obese or otherwise ill. but they are under tremendous pressure from wall street. so even when they as individual companies have sought to do the right thing by consumers and cut back on the salt, sugar, fat, they're using there is wall street time and time again wait a minute, look at sales. maybe we should be going to the other direction. >> did the rise of subway, arguably a healthyier option sway them at all. >> the fast food industry has moved into the grocery store. the grocery manufacturers began to emulate fast food and another way of increasing sales. and so you see more and more foods in the grocery store that look like things you would buy at a fast food chain. >> john: we've only got a minute left but is it impossible for poor folks or non-wealthy folks

for people to eat like they did in the garden of amen adam and eve? >> it's hard. highly processed foods little towards fresh fruits and vegetables, that's one way the playing field is totally unlivable. i write about families, poor neighbors in philadelphia who have taken it upon themselves to go after the corner stores which they view as horrible as crack houses because their kids are running in there and for 1 dollar getting 300 empty calories. >> if you were addicted to mcdonald's this book will make you grimace. author of "salt, sugar, fat." michael moss, thank you so much for your service to your fellow human beings. who is bigger, mitt romney oror dennis rodman. we'll talk about that coming up

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>> john: apparently mitt romney wasn't just a weird figment of

our collective imagination, my friends. he gave an supervisor, and in a way he sounded like he was still campaigning. attacking obama on the sequester while faulting republicans for none of it, could the g.o.p. be blamed for dragging him to far to the right during the etch-a-sketch election? of course not. >> the idea that some how the primary made me become more conservative than i was just isn't accurate. >> no, and virtually in the next breath, and i appreciate mitt does not always stop to breathe he bemoaned questions that hurt him in the general election. you may he recall mitt and the other candidates, i call them myth and the knights of the trickle down why did governor romney lock himself in a stupid promise. >> again if you said that you were not going to raise taxes then you say romney said he

wasn't going to raise taxes you now he said he will. he has changed his position. >> which is to say the primary made mitt more conservative than he was. let's bring in sh errod small who has appeared on every show on tv. and comedian sue costello and comedian lee camp, moment of clarity show. thank you all for coming. >> you're welcome. >> john: you're from proven. >> i'm from boston. >> john: i'll ask you the question mitt romney question. >> okay. >> john: did mitt romney misunderstood the question or did we all misunderstand mitt romney. >> he reminds me the guy in high school the football player who caught the one catch and still wears his jacket. do you remember that time because that's all he talks about, i was the governor of massachusetts.

>> give it a break. he has been through enough. >> john: he has been through enough but he has not learned anything from it. >> he has a rich man's mouth. that's the problem. he don't know how to talk around broke people. >> john: that's been very true. but does the guy have--seriously, does he have anchor beliefs? >> no. >> and he kept saying--he has no core beliefs. he kept saying during the interview minorities. i couldn't attract minorities. women not a minority. he didn't figure that out. >> and like people like when a white dude keeps yelling minorities. >> john: and they just wanted free stuff. this guy says they just want free stuff meaning obama-care, and then turn around in the same speech calling obama a tax. which way was it? the same condescension and lack of understanding that turns so many voters off.

>> it's not just that he doesn't understand but he doesn't try to understand. >> john: you're right. >> they were in a mix, they were in a fight. the kennedy, he was the front line of all these topics but mitt romney has so many people telling him which way to go and which way the wind is blowing. >> his whole reason for living became about-- >> how well you can market yourself in front of the america people. >> john: i'm glad he's back. i don't want him to go away. do we as comedians ever want him to go away? >> i like him. on twitter i said you have to follow bill maher and sue costello because i was just talking about mitt. >> john: i'm sure mitt would follow you too. as much as you might like president obama, the guy is not

funny. >> it's not that obama is not funny. he's just a nerd. he's a nerd. >> john: nerds are funny. he's not funny. >> sometimes in the erkle case. he's boring but he's doing a great job. >> john: let me bring up another weird interview in the news. do you ever wonder why people made fun of dennis rodman in the 1990s. i know he slept with madonna but we all did. dennis said the third generation dictator is just a great guy who wants obama to give him a call. and how might they two world leaders settle their differences? >> he loves basketball. at the same time i said, obama loves basketball. let's start there. >> john: and that's not the dumbest interview that stephanopoulos has done on that show. >> i agree with him. >> i agree with him too. >> we agree. >> john: yeah, here's my point

on den miss rodman. everyone is making fun of him. when billy joel played the soviet union in '87, he was booed by the american audience for doing it. then he showed that we were cool for doing it. and dennis rodman did the same thing. >> george stephanopoulos should have been ashamed of himself. why would you coroner dennis corner den rodman. >> he's an american ambassador. >> so is miley cyrus. >> john: he has a new little body. >> you he's he is think he's going over there to sell human rights? no. >> john: he's going over there for the fusion of money that he needs. >> when asked about the 200,000

prisoners in north korea he drew an insane equivalence to over here. that's not equivalent at all. but what he is right if we had 25% of the world's prisoners in other prison, it is equivalent. >> john: it's buffoonery but it's between justice and peace. >> it's a fine line. >> john: yes, that's like aee lyric. >> if you need dennis rodman to give you answers on anything but rebounding. >> john: well, other relics of the 1990s on the comeback trail jeb bush neither denying or confirming he's on collision course for president. i think it's a lock. >> i think so. >> lee? >> why not continue the the monarchy bush, clinton bush-- >> john: it's heritage power. but he has been setting himself

up to be the electable moderate, and it will be a two-man race between him and chris christie. >> i would go with chris christie because i like him. >> they would give him a hard time about his weight. >> but it would fun to make fun of him. >> john: christie or clinton or bush and clinton. >> bush and clinton. >> it's the 90's again. thank you for my panel. sherrod small lee camp and sue costello. and what a great show you've got going on lee. >> thanks. >> john: in last night's meet the press you won't want to miss it. it's coming up next. (vo) she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. >>ok, so there's wiggle room in the ten commandments, that's what you're saying. (vo) she's joy behar. >>current will let me say anything.

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>> john: welcome back. for tonight's f-bomb, we have meet the press reenactment and almost pre-enactment of a parody and a farce. >> mr. speaker, i would like to ask you very tough questions followed up by limp follow up. >> david we've known about this for 16 months and there is no plan for the white house to replace the sequester. >> mr. speaker that's just not true. they've made it clear that the president has a plan. >> well, david, that's just nonsense. if he had a plan why wouldn't senate democrats go ahead and pass it. >> well, this is where i should bring up how the senate democrats tried that but got filibustered but instead i'm going to ask about revenue. >> the president got $650 billion higher taxes. what more